Tampopo

Name: Tampopo
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985-11-23
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

タンポポ (1985)

Timing: 1:55 (115 min)

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Release date

1985-11-23

Country

Japan

Production

New Century Producers, Itami Productions

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$1 500 000

Revenue

$224 097

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Director

Jūzō Itami

Actors

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka, Kinzō Sakura, Hyōe Enoki, Gō Awazu, Mario Abe, Izumi Hara
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Jūzō Itami, Seigo Hosogoe, Yasushi Tamaoki

Operator

Masaki Tamura

Composer

Kunihiko Murai

Artist

Takeo Kimura

Audition

Kosaburo Sasaoka, Shigeru Sakurada

Editing

Akira Suzuki
All team (20)

Short description

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

What's left behind the scenes

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